TM, too.
No Water, toilets, Airports, Hospitals, Veterinarian offices, Funeral homes, (bodies piling up) traffic lights, unrest in the ghettos, etc. What happens in jails?...
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Posted on 08/31/2013 12:44:22 PM PDT by LucyT
Power grid vulnerabilities are finally garnering some attention by government officials.
An electrical grid joint drill simulation is being planned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of utility workers, FBI agents, anti-terrorism experts, governmental agencies, and more than 150 private businesses are involved in the November power grid drill.
The SHIELD Act, which is stalled in Congress, is the first serious piece of legislation in many years to attempt to address the vulnerabilities of the power grid in.
(Excerpt) Read more at offthegridnews.com ...
The GridEX II drill Nov. 13-14 will focus primarily on how governments will react if the electrical grid fails and, for instance, the food supply chain collapses.
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Obama’s government? What could possibly go wrong.
I work for a power company and haven’t heard about this. We had a city-wide power outage about 11 years ago. Since we’re a southern city of almost a million people, there were almost no problems.
They’ll probably do this drill in the north so Holder’s People can get some new TVs and shoes.
Accumulate 1.7 BILLION rounds, build up DHS to TWICE the budget of the USMC and the same headcount, then POWER DOWN the power grid.
Hey, great thinking.
By the Prez who smuggled machine-guns to drug-dealers.
What’s not to like..?
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Naahh, you see, uhhh, As I am heading us towards uhhh, another war, which uhhh, will probably lead to more terrorism here at home, uhhhh, you know, uhhhh, All the fault of the Republicans by the way... We’re uhhhh going to practice shutting down uhhhh, the power grid across MY nation...
...guys... the teleprompter went blank... Uhhhh, what am I supposed to say now...
That's rather what I was thinking.
TM, too.
No Water, toilets, Airports, Hospitals, Veterinarian offices, Funeral homes, (bodies piling up) traffic lights, unrest in the ghettos, etc. What happens in jails?...
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the intermittent and unpredictable output of Wind farms and solar arrays are going to cause more problems to the grid than anything else.
Just wait until those “25% of electricity from renewable” mandates kick in
Remember, the Progressives ultimate goal is to get rid of 5.5 billion people. Using Agnda 21 plans, get the majority of the population crammed into large urban areas and then turn off the power which will cause food shortages, water and sewage problems which will cause disease, financial crash because computers are down, etc.
Heyyyy, my power grid went down when my “smart” meter cut the power to the house... DAT is an emergency. The terrorists manage the grid, folks.
Members of ACORN will be visiting our neighborhoods collecting FOOD...for ah..”charity”!?
Since those ammo buys are spread out over five years, I guess they'll wait four more years or so before cutting off the power.
Preppers’ PING!!
Or is it just a practice run to see if they could really pull it off?
The other test was shutting down the city of Boston. They are planning with others outside to bring about thier utopia
The article makes a very important point about large transmission transformers. These are the behemoth ones you see in substations and near generating plants, the cost starts at $500,000 and goes up to several million each, and they aren’t kept in stock, and leadtimes run 6 months or more. Think about when the electrical grid infrastructure was really built-out in much of the country - it’s been post WWII in many areas, and that means the average age of these transformers is 50 years or more, which is their design life. So much of the grid is living on borrowed time as it is, and transformers fail primarily by overstress - a major surge results in breakdown that causes internal arcing and further breakdown. A runaway condition that destroys the transformer, and leaves a sizable population without power for a long time.
The power companies have enough spares on trailers to cope with the occasional isolated outage, but something on a massive scale will leave millions in the dark, along with their phones, internet, EBT and ATM machines, gas pumps, etc.
In a real disaster, what’s to keep our nuclear facilities from melting down?
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